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Trump in the looking glass — 49 Comments

1. Just another reason why Trump could not be allowed to win the election:
   https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/once-secret-fbi-informant-reports-reveal-wide-ranging

   Philosophical query: If you’re covering up EVERYTHING, does that mean that you’re NOT covering up ANYTHING.

2. I found the first article to manipulative for my taste. I think we need to focus on how to strengthen the Republican Party with people committed to National sovereignty. President Trump had to fight the Republican Party as well as the left to construct any of the border wall. Thinking back when the fence Act of 2008 was passed while Republicans controlled Congress, the act never intended to build one foot of legitimate wall. There are other issues as well centered around globalization that President Trump supporters differ from the Wall Street apologist. Our first task is adding true conservatives to the Republican presence in Congress.

3. I hope he will be forward-thinking at CPAC, and anything else he does. He can do the country further good service.

4. How can the Republican Party ever be taken seriously when it cannot even exercise the most basic of impulse control and enforce voter discipline? There were three Republican Representative that voted in support of the Equality Act last week. How is it possible that they are even allowed to associate with the party, voting in support of a bill that is so fundamentally at odds with the Republican platform and principles?

   As long as this sort of maverick pandering is allowed to pass without comment, the Republican Party will never be capable of competing with the Democratic Party. They cannot be sure of their own votes. Accordingly, they are unable to compete.

   I am looking forward to hearing what Trump has to say.

5. Aggie:

   Three out of 211? Apparently you are asking for 100% “party discipline.” How is that to be enforced by the GOP, which at least theoretically stands for the right of the individual to think for him/herself rather than always marching in lockstep with the party line? Do you think those three should not be allowed to be members of the party? Do you think they should be threatened and blackmailed?

   Every single Democrat voted for the Equality Act, which is not surprising. Now, that’s party discipline. That’s what Democrats are known for – no one is allowed to stray. I’m not sure how they accomplish it – threats, blackmail, or just the fact that Democrats are used to saying the ends justify the means and therefore even if their conscience dictates otherwise they must Obey the Party.

   But that also means that the bill was passing no matter what the Republicans did. Did these three vote for it because it was popular in their districts? I don’t really know, but I suspect something of the sort.

6. Trump the builder. Trump the winner. Trump the destroyer. Knock. Knock.

7. Well, two Democrats voted against the “COVID relief” pork plan, so there’s something. Not much, but something.

8. I noticed them voting for that insane bill but I think it was 4, not 3. I hope they draw primary opponents. I did not research them to see if they had been incumbents for long.

9. DJT has opened a lot of people’s eyes. The Obama people told us that a stagnant 1-2% growth of the economy was all we could hope for. They told us that we just needed to be “nicer” to our adversaries and they would reciprocate. They told us that a strong military was “provocative,” and we must be weaker so people wouldn’t see us a a bully. They told us we were an “information economy” and that dirty jobs like mining, manufacturing, oil/gas production, etc. should be left to other countries. They told us that illegal immigrants were a blessing to this country – bringing hard workers and talent to our economy. (What they didn’t tell us was that they believed that those illegal immigrants would become their voters in the future.) They told us that our police forces were systemically racist and Obama’s DOJ set to work to “reform” many city police departments . (They began reforms of use of force in Seattle in 2011 and completed the reforms in 2014. Yet, the leftist Seattle city council has just recently voted to reduce police spending. And the beat goes on.) They told us climate change was an existential threat, and their EPA announced that CO2 was an air “pollutant.” They reduced oil and gas exploration and production. Homelessness, drug abuse, and hopelessness all increased.

   Trump laid bare all the lies we had been told. He showed that putting America first, securing our borders, lowering taxes and regulations, bringing “dirty jobs” back to the U.S., strengthening our military, re-negotiating bad trade deals, shoring up NATO, defeating ISIS soundly, standing up to Iran, standing up to China, and much more allowed the U.S. to begin a great come back. All that was slowed by the Covid-19 pandemic and then the rigged election.

   He demonstrated what works. The Biden policies will soon begin slowing the economy and allow foreign actors manipulate our policies. All Trump has to do is keep pushing America first ideas and pointing out the failures of the Biden/Harris regime. Most of the citizens of this country are going to pine for Trump’s polices a year from now.

10. Just like Napoleon ,T Red will be back. Stronger than ever and sooner than people think.

    How or why?

    Because people like me are working in the shadows.

    Oh JJ, be assured, there will be more disclosures waiting. And much of it will upset and shock the general American public, no matter your politics.

11. @NEO,

    The Democratic Party has control of the House, and has had it since 2018. Why?

    The Democratic Party has control of the Senate, too. Why?

    I won’t mention the Presidency. ‘Not My President’: That phrase has taken on a whole new meaning now. In terms of the Duties of Office, Joe Biden isn’t anybody’s President.

12. In several podcasts that I have referenced Robert Barnes has stated over and over did Trump learn from his mistakes. He says look at what people that he surrounds himself with. He really likes the policy side of the Trump team with Steve Miller but he is really skeptical at the endorsement side.

    So we will listen to the speech but we will watch what he does even more closely.

13. To paraphrase Earl Browder: “Trumpism is 21st Century Americanism.”

14. Aggie, the 3 Republicans were Reps. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., John Katko, R-N.Y., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., They, along with Liz Cheney, should be thrown out of the Republican Party.

15. Don’t worry, Yammer is “working” in the shadows much as I suppose he had Georgia “covered.” LOL

16. Pelosi Through the Looking-Glass…
    Compare and contrast:
    https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-nancy-pelosi-nuclear-weapons-26a9ddefe652ef413951110cc67bf10a
    https://notthebee.com/article/watch-biden-short-circuit-during-a-speech-and-literally-ask-what-am-i-doing-here

    Merely the thought of Pelosi calling someone else “unhinged” is as hysterical as it is preposterous.
    (But she plays a good game, doesn’t she?….)

    OTOH, we FINALLY have some transparency from the Democratic Party! Finally….

17. A plan of action for the Republican Party from Scott Alexander Siskind, formerly the proprietor of Slate Star Codex:

    https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans

    In a nutshell: “Pivot from mindless populist rage to a thoughtful campaign to fight classism.”

    Hmm. Basically, an updated restatement of Codevilla’s 2010 Ur-text…

    https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class/

    …but from the other side of the political spectrum.

    Common ground?

18. I am Spartacus, throughout Trump’s presidency I watched what he did and paid far less attention to what he said or to his Twitter feed. I am applying the same standard to Biden. This is made even more necessary in his case because it’s hard to tell what he’s saying at any time. The people running his policy decisions are, so far, radical left, and it’s seldom that he defies their expectations.

19. As long as this sort of maverick pandering is allowed to pass without comment, the Republican Party will never be capable of competing with the Democratic Party. They cannot be sure of their own votes. Accordingly, they are unable to compete.

    You don’t have to be absolutely uniform on policy. However, you shouldn’t have Republican members of Congress signing on to the Democrats most vicious and meretricious projects. That includes the horrid abuse of Judge Kavanaugh, the two shampeachments, the invidious actions against Marjorie Taylor Greene, and monstrosities like ‘the Equality Act’. You should also have the Republicans speaking with one voice on ballot security and vote fraud.

    NB, only 30% of the House Republican caucus was willing to bounce Liz Cheney from her position. The ratio in favor of ousting her should have been 20-to-1. Compare the indulgence of her with the treatment of Steve King. Men without chests, feckless careerists, Chamber-of-Commerce lapdogs, jerks.

20. Republicans : Be more like this. An excellent set of points, I think…

    https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans

21. Aggie,

    Agree. See:

    https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/02/27/trump-in-the-looking-glass/#comment-2543739

    Siskind makes good sense, if one discounts the strawmen. As he acknowledges up front, “I hate you and you hate me.” Refreshingly honest, but it skews his perspective in places. E.g. his implication that we hate the ruling class because it’s “smart”. No, it’s not smart. It’s credentialed. It’s also deeply mediocre, incompetent, and corrupt. Apart from that sort of question-begging, good stuff.

22. Hubert, I enjoyed the articles. The problem for Republicans isn’t the message – it’s the follow through.

23. Eva Marie,

    Follow-through: agreed. And problems with preparation, as in not being prepared for the entirely predictable and coordinated effort by the other side–successful, alas–to dope the 2020 election. Hell, the Dems telegraphed exactly what they were going to do, and they did it.

    Perhaps CPAC will show us if the nickel has finally dropped. Based on what I caught of Kristi Noem’s speech yesterday, not quite. Even the best Republicans seem utterly clueless when it comes to what they and we are up against. Clueless, indifferent, or co-opted. By way of contrast, Tulsi Gabbard gets it. Maybe we can recruit her.

24. “…Tulsi Gabbard gets it.”

    Rather bizarrely (or perhaps, extraordinariliy), Gabbard “got it” relatively early on when she publicly warned against Democratic Party vote harvesting.

    Somehow she has been able to maintain a conscience in spite of being in the vortex of all that manifold, multi-layered and diverse(!) (Democratic party) corruption.

    Somehow.

    (Which means that such a thing IS possible and that character will, in the end, out…)

    But then she has already been categorized as a maverick (besides being called other names).

    But as I said, extraordinary.

25. Barry Meislin:

    And she didn’t run for re-election.

26. “Pivot from mindless populist rage to a thoughtful campaign to fight classism.”

    Siskind’s just another obnoxious, meretricious, uber-dishonest jerk with a talent for glibness—glib lies at that.

    (Keeping in mind that he has likely been viewing Trump and his supporters through the warped, perverted and perverting lens of the corrupt media, reinforcing—proving!—everything about Trump of which he’s been already convinced.)

    But genius that he is, a card-carrying member of the “best and the brightest”(and no doubt the most caring and compassionate), he doesn’t even realize it.

    How might he characterize the hatred that has been systematically fomented and constantly whipped up by those he supports? How might he describe the rage that has infested and infected those who despise Trump?

    For that matter, how might he write about the profound, wall-to-wall corruption of which his party seems to be so proud?

    The answer: He wouldn’t even deign to recognize it enough to deny it;
    e.g. https://www.theepochtimes.com/democrats-ignore-antifa-black-lives-matter-in-calling-out-domestic-terrorism-rep-greg-steube_3713385.html

    All of which no doubt enables him to be “thoughtful” enough to oh-so-helpfully suggest that for the GOP to succeed, it ought to pursue “a campaign” for…whatever. Can there be any doubt that he’s laughing uproariously at those he’s already condemned but appears to wish to give “assistance”?

    (Admittedly, it does help to be ignorant—and to cultivate ignorance—especially, it seems, if one is incredibly intelligent….)

    So how about a “thoughtful campaign” for the Democrats to respect the law, to not pursue relentlessly ruthlessly and illegally one’s political enemies—and certainly to not demonize them. Not to trample your country’s Constitution? Not to lie consistently. Not to promote a civil war. Not to wreck your cities. Not to convert your nation into a third-world cesspool?

    (Yes, it would be nice if Democrats would not be so utterly dishonest. On the other hand, how does a “decent” person go about rationalizing the no-holds-barred drive to achieve naked power?)

    But of course that’s not on the agenda.

    As for Republicans, while they will be castigated—“thoughtfully” no doubt—by those who seek to destroy them (even those with the “best intentions”(!)), they DON’T HAVE TO persuade anyone that this is a “class issue”—those myriad, record-setting number of Trump voters already know that (though it’s much more than a class issue: it’s a decency issue, more importantly it’s an issue of saving the country).

    Still, they might start (“thoughtfully” of course) by trying to make elections far more secure (read “unstealable”).

    Alas, it seems they will have a rocky road ahead of them….and not only from the paragons of the Democrat party and supporters such as Siskind, but from purported Republicans as well:

    https://headlineusa.com/raffensperger-ga-election-reforms/
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/11/29/what-is-georgia-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger-thinking-n1180075

27. Barry M.,

    “Common ground?” So I guess that would be a no.

    I grew up surrounded by people like Siskind. I went to grad school with people like Siskind. I work every day with people like Siskind. It’s a waste of breath to tell him, and people like him, to look in the mirror. He already has, repeatedly, and he loves what he sees there.

    The question is not whether he’s a jerk. The question is, Does he have a point? Sputtering, incoherent rage is not a political strategy. Even eloquent, coherent rage is not a political strategy. Appealing to common class interests against our deeply unpopular ruling class is a political strategy.

28. I guess the point i was trying to make, no doubt poorly, is that 1) Trump has ALREADY—and successfully, i.e., convincingly—made that point; and 2) (FWIW) the “incoherent” rage that the Left likes so dearly to pin on the INSANE and MURDEROUS RIGHT (IOW on ALL Trump supporters) has been, in typical Through-the-Looking-Glass fashion—AKA psychotic projection—directed for the most part BY the Left (with massive, egregious assistance of the media) AT Trump and his supporters.

    Moreover, that one hasn’t, doesn’t (or can’t) read about this in the Stalinist media is perfectly understandable. (I agree that there is a definite problem for those who wished Trump were, perhaps, more than a tad less “pugilistic” and/or that he were more “pragmatic” in his attitudes; but this has been discussed time and time again on this site. The fact remains: how does a basically law-abiding party deal with a skillfully planned act of political skullduggery, sabotage and larceny—i.e., a stolen election, a coup?)

    So of course, people like Siskind, as well as others less articulate, less refined and less educated, will zero in, Alinsky-like, on Republican “rage”. It gives them pleasure and they can wax righteously indignant while dumping on their opponents (and ignoring the rage that is an essential and tactical feature of their own side?

    Siskind really should have spent his precious time (and “good intentions”) to try to persuade Republicans to somehow find a way to prevent the next election from being stolen. And the election after that, and the one after that, etc., etc.

    (Then, he could have a good belly laugh about that one….or perhaps just a snort or chuckle, cultured fellow that he is.)

29. Let’s not forget Hillary accused Tulsi of being a “Russian agent.”

30. One of the books I’m reading right now is by an ex-KGB guy:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Cherkashin

    An actual real life cloak and dagger agent. Recruited Aldrich Ames — who in a fair and just world would have gone to the chair.

    If you could knock 40 years off his accumulated age, he’d be a safer pair of hands for President than anyone mentioned in this here thread. That’s more a reflection of the current state of the West than an assertion of the doubtless fine qualities of Victor Cherkashin.

    Interesting book, too. These things are only ever half-true if that, but interesting.

31. So much for “the past [being] a different country….”
    https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185289626409406464
    H/T Ron Coleman twitter feed.

    But it’s time to get back to the future:
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/fight-election-integrity-defeat-democrats-hr1-rep-andy-biggs
    (For anyone who has trouble understanding that the war against Trump and his supporters must continue, that Washington DC will remain an occupied city for the forseeable future, that SCOTUS WILL be expanded and that “politics” in this country is on the verge of becoming essentially broken…UNLESS AND ONLY UNLESS certain members of the House and Senate—but mostly the Senate—decide that the time has come to show some spine.)

32. Related:
    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1366034675119046662

33. Barry M.,

    Actually, I share your sentiments. Yes, the war against Trump and his supporters will continue. But I wouldn’t bank on Republicans showing some spine. A few may. Most won’t.

    As for rage, well, I’ve been feeling plenty of that since November 3. All it’s gotten me so far is sleep deprivation and a lot of stomach acid.

    One thing I have learned in dealing with the Left over the years is that they like it when we complain about their hypocrisy, dishonesty, malevolence, and so forth. It shows they’re powerful and we aren’t. I’m not interested in giving them that satisfaction. I’m interested in hitting them where it hurts.

    As for Siskind’s intentions, designs, or motivations: couldn’t care less. Remember U. S. Grant’s famous outburst to an officer in the Wilderness:

    “Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”

    Good advice.

34. Rufus,

    Hillary’s accusing Gabbard of being a Russian agent is a backhanded compliment. It shows they’re scared of her. Good. To paraphrase another Civil War general: Let’s see if we can find ways to keep the skeer on ’em.

    Zaphod,

    Haven’t read Cherkashin. Ames and Hanssen: well, well. There’s no denying that the USSR excelled at spying. Still, we beat them in the end. Or did we?

35. @Hubert:

    I think they mostly beat themselves.

    Looks like we in the West have just about beaten ourselves, too.

    Peer-level Competitors will tend to help with the odd nudge or kick towards the end just to help things along. But mainly internal rot does the trick.

    Contradictions get you in the end. Always.

    Developing Anti-fragility to inevitable and unavoidable baked-in societal collapses should go on the to-do list.

    Anyone here read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem?

36. So, someone spoke at CPAC today…

37. Zaphod:

    And Uncle Joe caused the Japanese to surrender after the A-bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not that America produced the B-29 and the Manhattan Project in the same war to defeat the totalitarians. Yeah, it suits the left to delegitimize the triumph of the west in the past over the totalitarians. They can’t admit that they have lost before. And now the totalitarians are in the three branches of government and the bureaucracy, so they will win this time! (In their dreams).

38. And in Texas last week Uncle Joe was speaking of Rep. Shirley Jackson Lee (don’t call me Shirley). Edith Biden has her hands full keeping the Ho at bay, When will Edith start making calls to foreig

39. And in Texas last week Uncle Joe was speaking of Rep. Shirley Jackson Lee (don’t call me Shelia). Does Dr. Edith Biden has her hands full keeping the Ho at bay? When will Dr. Edith start making calls to foreign leaders without Joe in the room? Is there a Joe filter on Dr. Edith’s calls?

40. Zaphod,

    Yes, I suppose they did. I’d like to think we gave them more than a nudge in the course of almost 50 years, however. Having been, in a very minor way, one of the nudges.

    Speaking of the russkies in days of yore, here’s George Kennan in 1947:

    “In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.”

    U.S. policy worked pretty much as Kennan predicted. At the very least, it was an industrial-strength rot-accelerator.

41. @Hubert:

    Good stuff + Respect. They did need shutting down for their own good as much as ours. Still, may have been a Pyrrhic Victory; ~13 years from the Long Telegram to Eisenhower’s Farewell Address. Granted the Military-Industrial Complex / Deep State might be merely the left hind leg of the Elephant of our accumulated dysfunctions, but it’s a major drag on any attempts to slay the beast.

    In a way the Soviets were our Tito: kept the lid on the really deep problems bubbling away while the pressure built up.

    And a good chunk of our idealogical arsenal of the post-war era has also been an industrial-strength rot-accelerator. Indiscriminately.

    There’s an entire genre on RT YouTube Channel of Putin dressing down corrupt local officials and righting wrongs. All standard disclaimers apply naturally. But it’s entertaining to see the high brought low. Our public theatre is less edifying.

42. But if he speaks in the voice of the leader of a movement that’s bigger than everyone in the room, including himself, then he’ll ensure that this vital fight will continue in the proper terms and in its legitimate context: on the issues, as a patriotic struggle for the principles upon which this nation should stand.

    He doesn’t get it. And it’s a frequent problem in the American right.

    He keeps living in a world where there’s a political fight based in principles. It’s NOT. It’s not about principles, it’s about DEMOGRAPHICS.

    The Republican Party is becoming the American party. The Democrat Party is becoming the black/hispanic party. Principles don’t vote, people do. Americans are demographically in decline, and that means that the Democrat Party is gonna be the winner next decades. If the American nation has less of 50% of votes in US, immigrants and blacks will rule. End of the story,

    American are losing their country because they keep that mindset where America is a big nation that integrates everybody. It’s not. It’s a nation that right now it’s sharing a land called “US” with other nations. The moment they stop being the majority, they won’t make the rules anymore. It’s as easy as that.

43. @Yann:

    Yup.

    Obviously a few exceptions here and there in the tails of distributions. Only mention this to forestall the inevitable ‘Whatabouters’ who tend to jump in with their Whatabouts.

    But Yup.

    Then we have all the Good People who don’t like to think Bad Thoughts. History issues no Awards for Goodness. And one thing is certain: whoever shows up at History’s Finish Line won’t be the purest and most altruistic and least in-group focused of the contenders.

    Demographics is Destiny. The future belongs to those who show up in it. <== David Goldman quote, so it must be OK to say it and think it :).

44. “The Democrat Party is becoming the black/hispanic party.”

    So that’s why record numbers of Blacks and Hispanics voted for Trump?

    (And why the Democrats had to steal the election?)

    I’m not overly fond of generalization but here goes:
    Hispanics know CRAZY when they see it. And they—for the most part—don’t like it.
    Ditto for Blacks.
    As for Asians, well they learned it a long time ago.
    Once again, one’s mileage / kilometrage may vary.
    And there are exceptions to every generalization.

    The Democrats have been lying for far too long. And getting away with it.

    Obama made “transformation” his message and his goal. (…But what the heck does transformation mean? Sounds OK, well intended, but….head scratcher that one—Oh, gosh I think I know: it kinda sounds like “change”; like “improve”. Yeah, that must be it!! Obama wants to IMPROVE the US!!!…)

    If Obama is to be credited for anything, it is that through his continuous lies and toxic policies—but especially his unprecedented demonization of his opponents—and ultimately hard-to-conceal weaponization of government agencies—that he, at least for those who had their eyes open, ripped the mask off Democratic Party duplicity, perniciousness, criminality and destructiveness (but then he was sooooo Presidential…and wore terrifically creased trousers! Progressive! Forward-looking!! Transforming!!!).

    True, he had a lot of assistance in all this–with the media, especially, running interference as they pushed The Narrative(TM) 24/7 while hiding what had to had to be hidden even as they by ridiculed and excoriated politicians—and countries—they deemed Enemies of the People.

    And yet, in spite of it all, enough people were able to see—or perhaps “sense” is the better word here—what was really going on and this, combined with an absolutely (despite all her “finer points”) putrid candidate, helped Trump to somehow win in 2016.

    What was “enough people” in 2016 became a tsunami in 2020.
    Except the Democrats and their foul allies, yoking the assistance of a deadly disease to their already toxic arsenal of lies, slanders and blood libels, exploiting—and by their policies, promoting—the deaths of thousands, were, this time, ready.

    Hubert’s endorsement of Grant’s example (above) is exceedingly apt; but what to do, what to do…
    I worry that, perhaps, the only thing that can be done is for the Republicans to stress Democratic hypocrisy—which admittedly has been out in the open for a long time now (but which doesn’t worry the Democrats one bit, even if, maybe, it ought to; they actually seem to delight in it…)—DARE the Democrats to steal the next election (next elections), but to be ready for the subversion this time. To be prepared.

    The drawbacks are enormous, but the opponent is absolutely ruthless and has an insatiable thirst for power at all costs.

    “Bring it on”(?)

45. “Getting ready” (Related):
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/11/02/computer-experts-sound-warnings-safety-americas-voting-machines/6087174002/

    …Plus some reassuring news (for those of us fearing Total War against cultural treasures—especially after what scurrilous threats against such glorious icons as The Muppets and Dr. Seuss):
    https://www.wtrf.com/entertainment-news/hasbro-reverses-decision-mr-potato-head-will-remain/
    H/T Instapundit (both links)

46. And know that amidst all the smoke, mirrors, white phosphorous and absolute lies that characterize the current, most recent iteration of Democratic Party plotting and its brazen (if brilliantly executed) coup, certain events may be forgotten.
    They shouldn’t because they tell us just who the Democrats, and Obama, and Biden are. And the direction in which the “Biden” administration is going.

    NEVER FORGET!
    https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/once-secret-fbi-informant-reports-reveal-wide-ranging
    H/T Powerline blog

    With JCPOA (The Sequel) on the launching pad….

47. Wouldn’t ye know it: “Domestic Terrorists” (TM) are commencing the pushback.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/efforts-underway-key-battleground-states-return-voting-systems-pre-2020

    Would appear that “Biden” (AKA Obama, Inc.) along with their loyal media pit bulls—no doubt, chomping at the bit (while preparing to mix their poisons…and their metaphors)—have their work cut out for them.

    (So Will Cuomo be saved by the bell?)

48. Not very OT:

    https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/23/the-last-stop-before-thermopylae/

49. The criminals are running the country.
    The lunatics are running the asylum.
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/rachel-rachel-bruce-bawer/

    The media, in resplendent, hagiographic praise of these criminals and lunatics (not mutually exclusive, mind you), are, likewise in full frontal attack mode, fulminating against anyone who might dare to point out the “potentially” “problematic” aspects of this particular phenomenon, or—heaven forfend—raise any questions about it, or—Great Lord above—express any criticism of it.

    After all, it has been decreed by our Betters(TM) that children are the new battlefield (as they might say) and if some have to be sacrificed “for the greater good”, then so be it.

    Indeed, in the never-ending battle against the “DEPLORABLE demons” and “Trumpian terrorists”, the Covid victims played their role in exemplary fashion.

    It is now the children’s turn to step up.

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